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I have to agree. He didn't get a lot of game time, but whenever he was on he looked very, very good, superior to Genia. He even seems to be passing accurately. He's gonna be a huge loss to NSW next year, but my new favourite French team, Toulouse will get him.

According to French tv at about 65 minutes the saffa's had 10 five plus phases of play and we had zero. According to cyclopath it was 15-0 by the end. It definitely had to be an intentional game plan. And it's hard to criticize because it worked, we did win the game, but I have to question...

1. Bam Bam by a country mile 2. JOC (James O'Connor) just for kicking over the 70 minute penalty 3. B Lawrence

According to French tv at the 65 minute mark: 5+ phases - SA 10, Oz 0! Thats an unbelievable stat. surely that must be the first time Australia has not held the ball all game for a 5th phase. It's hard to argue against the strategy since we did win the game but with the attacking strength of...

Unfortunately, depending on where you live, low quality illegal downloads is often the only option for watching certain matches. Now that RugbyZone has lost it's rights, in Europe there's little possibility of watching Super 15's without going to illegal internet streaming sites (unless of...

My wishes for speedy recovery for all of them. What were the injuries? I was watching with French commentating so didn't catch the subs. On the positive side, and I don't mean this to any of their detriments, this at least should force Deans to choose the strongest possible Australian back...

Oh, and congratulations Ireland. You played excellently.

Seriously this happens every four years, mostly with Murdock papers, although I guess in this case the irish article isn't from a Murdock paper. A couple of isolated Aussie journalist make diaparaging remarks about the opposition, completely out of tune with the average non-bogan supporter, and...

3. AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) 2. Barnes - why wasn't he played against Ireland or Italy? We looked very dangerous with the alternating playmakers. Hopefully he will at 12 for SA, and this is the end of Deans defense only center strategy. But it is also risky that him and Cooper won't get to play together under...

As far as Quade being hidden in defense I have nothing against that. Graham Henry refused to pick Shane Williams for Wales because he didn't want to see the diminutive Welshman being literally run over by Jonu Lomu and Ilk. Once he left the next coach selected Williams and created a defensive...

To answer the original question, is he a good or great player, anyone who is in the top 2 or 3 players is in my mind a great player. You don't get to be one of the top three by just being good! He is definitely a great player. Flawed and imperfect but great never-the-less. If you mean it in...

America's always had a lot of players, and the standard can be quite good at the lower levels. But at the higher levels they will always have to compete with American Football for the best players, and they haven't a hope in hell of the fastest and strongest athletes choosing an amateur sport...

Well, when you cannot win a scrum, line out, kick restart and don't have a fetcher to look for turn-over you're pretty screwed to start with. Beales continuous gifting of possession with his chip kicks and McCabe and Fa'aingers horror shows didn't help.

Class!!!

3. Samo - his running and defense were inspiring 2. Genia - again a phenomenal display from the worlds top no 10 1. Pocock Lots of honorable mentions, AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper), Fingers for cutting down a 6 on 2 overlap, Vicks and Horwill. A -1 to Cooper for sidestepping Nonu in defense (again) to allow him to score.

I guess SMH reads GAGR. Now left wing and right wing. Obviously Campo on his wing, but they could give us a few more than 2 options on the other wing to at least make us feel like we're making a choice.

For fullback, Burke would get the vote easily. If I had to choose a fullback at their peak in a lineup, I'd choose Latham, or Beale, but Burke was very good for a very long time. Beales been very good for a short period of time. And Latham seemed to have a funny carreer, almost in reverse as...

After looking at the team for the RWC I'd be interested to see if Deans plays Barnes at 12 and Horne at 13 vs the kiwi's, assuming they are both fit. Barnes, for obvious reasons, he's probably going to be our first choice 12 come RWC, and needs some hard game time first. Plus if his headaches...

Had a semi since '87 takes the cake...

4:15 on the video. Also loved "I think think it's great that kiwi's aren't, uh, uh, multiplying... It means there's less pressure on us, and (pause) on our welfare..."